Fasting

While browsing the stronglifts website I came across an E book they're trying to sell called 'Eat Stop Eat' which is basically intermittent 24hr fasting, 2x a week.

Anyway, according to the sales pitch of this product short term fasting doesn't slow your metabolism and causes hormones to be released which will help fat loss etc etc. The site owner of stronglifts testifies to it but I'd like to know if anyone has any knowledge as to the effectiveness of intermittent fasting, or if it is simply another gimmick.

"The hero and the coward both feel the same thing, but the hero projects his fear onto his opponent while the coward runs. 'Fear'. It's the same thing, but it's what you do with it that matters". - Cus D'Amato

*perhaps I forgot to add, I'm looking for people with KNOWLEDGE or EXPERIENCE. not moronic hearsay

"The hero and the coward both feel the same thing, but the hero projects his fear onto his opponent while the coward runs. 'Fear'. It's the same thing, but it's what you do with it that matters". - Cus D'Amato

There's a kid that did a log of this on a website I frequent. He pretty much went from fat to scrawny, and spent most of the log arguing about how he wasn't becomming scrawny despite the pictures.

Really, if you want to lose fat, I'd just do what has worked for decades by simply eating a caloric deficit of quality food.

That's pretty much what I thought.. the **** about not losing muscle said BS to me.

"The hero and the coward both feel the same thing, but the hero projects his fear onto his opponent while the coward runs. 'Fear'. It's the same thing, but it's what you do with it that matters". - Cus D'Amato

Yeah, he tried very hard to argue that he wasn't losing muscle because he was "using calipers", despite the fact that he was using them incorrectly. His theory was that it didn't matter if the method of measuring was incorrect, as long as it recorded a trend.